BoneSnapDeez wrote:Working Designs localized some great stuff, but also some surprisingly dull entries. Vay and Cosmic Fantasy 2 failed to wow me at all.
I like Vay
BoneSnapDeez wrote:Working Designs localized some great stuff, but also some surprisingly dull entries. Vay and Cosmic Fantasy 2 failed to wow me at all.
Jmustang1968 wrote:I like Vay
Sload Soap wrote:Infinite Undiscovery
Sload Soap wrote:Then there was Final Fantasy XIII which is for innumerable reasons about my least favourite game ever.
Sload Soap wrote:Most disappointing however was Eternal Sonata. It's a really beautiful game in a lot of ways but the main selling point for me was the really intriguing concept behind it. You see, the game is set inside the mind of Polish composer Frederic Chopin as he lays on his deathbed. I kind of went in expecting a deep and complex narrative, perhaps of a man retreating into a fantasy world to escape an inevitable and painful death from tuberculosis, or him reviewing his life's work and accomplishments and how much they really matter in the end. You know, something meaningful.
Nope. Just another environmental message/"we can do it if we work together" bit we've been seeing since FF1. There's a bit of unnecessary nihilism thrown in for good measure but the game completely forgets it's supposed to be about Chopin for massive sections of play. There are a few points where the developers chucked in some biographical data on Chopin in the form of text dumps on top of stock pictures (that look like they were pulled from Encarta Encyclopedia circa Windows 95) and that's it until the very very end. The allusions to Chopin's musical career and influence are only on the most superficial level with characters and places named after musical styles, instruments or terminology. More bizarre is that some of these characters are named after genres formed way after Chopin's death which just further added to misguided approach the developers took when drafting the story in my mind.
So yeah, what a waste of a concept. That and it's also too easy and has an awful English dub. Not a terrible game by any means but damn, it's soooo pretty and the combat is somewhat interesting I can't help feel it's massive missed opportunity. Could have been something really special if the developers had spent more time redrafting the story and expanding on that concept.
Sload Soap wrote:Lost Odyssey is great though. Just thought that needed to be said.
BoneSnapDeez wrote:Stuff about 7th gen RPGs
alienjesus wrote:BoneSnapDeez wrote:Stuff about 7th gen RPGs
Wait, you've played video games from years that start with '20'?
alienjesus wrote:BoneSnapDeez wrote:Stuff about 7th gen RPGs
Wait, you've played video games from years that start with '20'?